In its mid-17th to 19th century heyday, Yoshiwara was home to high-class courtesans who sold a world of luxurious closed-door ...

Read an excerpt from her new book on Dublin's red-light district, Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District. Wrong Women is a feminist history of Europe's largest ...

In its mid-17th to 19th century heyday, Yoshiwara was home to high-class courtesans who sold a world of luxurious ... the Yoshiwara red-light district was originally built in a different part ...

Photo: AFP In its mid-17th to 19th century heyday, Yoshiwara was home to high-class courtesans who sold a world of luxurious closed-door ... To regulate the sex industry, the Yoshiwara red-light ...